Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, 1993-1994: [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas] (ICPSR 2851)

The Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic
Studies of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) was modeled after the design
of the ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE
ELDERLY, 1981-1993: [EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA AND WASHINGTON
COUNTIES, IOWA, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA] (ICPSR 9915) and ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC
STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1996-1997: PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY OF THE
ELDERLY, FOURTH IN-PERSON SURVEY [DURHAM,... (more info)

The Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic
Studies of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) was modeled after the design
of the ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE
ELDERLY, 1981-1993: [EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA AND WASHINGTON
COUNTIES, IOWA, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA] (ICPSR 9915) and ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC
STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1996-1997: PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY OF THE
ELDERLY, FOURTH IN-PERSON SURVEY [DURHAM, WARREN, VANCE, GRANVILLE,
AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 2744). The Hispanic
EPESE collected baseline data beginning in September 1993 through June
1994 on a representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican-American
elderly, aged 65 years and older, residing in the five southwestern
states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The
primary purpose of the study was to provide estimates of the
prevalence of key physical health conditions, mental health
conditions, and functional impairments in older Mexican Americans and
to compare these estimates with those for other populations. The
Hispanic EPESE attempted to determine whether certain risk factors for
mortality and morbidity operate differently in Mexican Americans than
in non-Hispanic White Americans, African Americans, and other major
ethnic groups. The public use baseline data cover demographic
characteristics (age, sex, type of Hispanic race, income, education,
marital status, number of children, employment, and religion), height,
weight, social and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related
health problems, health habits, self-reported use of dental, hospital,
and nursing home services, and depression.

Access Notes

These data are freely available.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Markides, Kyriakos S. Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, 1993-1994: [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas]. ICPSR02851-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-12-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02851.v2

Universe:
All noninstitutionalized Mexican-American persons 65 years
of age and older in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and
Texas.

Data Types:
clinical data,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The SAS transport file was created using the SAS
XPORT engine.

Methodology

Sample:
Multistage, stratified, probability sample

Data Source:

personal interviews, questionnaires, and physical
assessments

Presence of Common Scales:
MMSE
CES-D

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2000-08-04

Version History:

2009-12-14 Data file and setup files have been updated.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

2003-08-07 An additional co-investigator has been added to
Chapter Two of the Resource Book of the Hispanic Established
Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly.

2003-06-19 The Resource Book of the Hispanic Established
Populations for the Studies of the Elderly, containing the List of
Publications and Manuscripts from the Hispanic EPESE in Portable
Document Format (PDF), has been added as Part 2.